Chromosome-specific and Noisy IFNB1 Transcription in Individual Virus-infected Human Primary Dendritic Cells

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2007 Aug 7

PMID 17675303

Citations 39

Authors

Jianzhong Hu

Stuart C Sealfon

Fernand Hayot

Ciriyam Jayaprakash

Madhu Kumar

Audrey C Pendleton

Arnaud Ganee

Ana Fernandez-Sesma

Thomas M Moran

James G Wetmur

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Abstract

The induction of interferon beta (IFNB1) is a key event in the antiviral immune response. We studied the role of transcriptional noise in the regulation of the IFNB1 locus in primary cultures of human dendritic cells (DCs), which are important 'first responders' to viral infection. In single cell assays, IFNB1 mRNA expression in virus-infected DCs showed much greater cell-to-cell variation than that of a housekeeping gene, another induced transcript and viral RNA. We determined the contribution of intrinsic noise by measuring the allelic origin of transcripts in each cell and found that intrinsic noise is a very significant part of total noise. We developed a stochastic model to investigate the underlying mechanisms. We propose that the surprisingly high levels of IFNB1 transcript noise originate from the complexity of IFNB1 enhanceosome formation, which leads to a range up to many minutes in the differences within each cell in the time of activation of each allele.

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